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Pic of the Day: The $600,000 toad statue your tax dollars paid for and you will never see in person
Bluegrass Pundit ^
| Tuesday, December 13, 2011
| Bluegrass Pundit
Posted on 12/14/2011 9:34:08 AM PST by Askwhy5times
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To: Askwhy5times
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:36:59 AM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: Askwhy5times
What is in that toad’s mouth? Looks like someone’s head.
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:37:27 AM PST
by
duckman
(Herman 2012 was Zero's worst night mare.)
To: Askwhy5times
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:38:56 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
To: Askwhy5times
Rather than affix postage to an envelope, they can simply sign their name and the letter will still reach its destination.Time to go literal on 'em. You must sign YOUR name ... not have an aide sign, not use a robo sign ... if it is to be free, YOU must sign.
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:40:34 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("Centralization destroys the blight of monopoly")
To: Dallas59
Its extremely ugly. That's pretty much the functional definition of modern art.
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:41:50 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Askwhy5times
Toads are good. Just ask Barry. They keep the flies off your face.
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:50:16 AM PST
by
throwback
( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
To: Psalm 144
That’s really bad, even by the standards of modern art.
To: Dallas59
The Mark Center cost $700,000,000. The frog cost $600,000. That's 6/7000 of the total cost, or 3/3500, or 1/1200 approximately.
That's one of those numbers that gets rounded off in a project like this.
On the other hand most people imagine that government facilities should be as plain as possible ~ no art, not even employee pictures hanging on walls in their own offices.
Painting the local post office's walls ALWAYS draws its share of complainants, several of whom will always write to the PMG and their local Congress Critter about "wasting money".
Frankly, I think they should have set up a gallery where they used a cheap $50 projector to show donated amateur porn movies all day on a plain white painted wall.
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:53:40 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Askwhy5times
I see art like that in the lobbies of Class “A” commerical office buildings all the time. /S
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:55:22 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Dallas59
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:57:10 AM PST
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: colorado tanker
The fairy and toad are overly realistic. You could have sold that to the Politboro in Moscow in Joe Stalin's day ~ he was a big fan of what the world knows as "Socialist Realism".
Now, about the thing you're looking at ~ it's the artist's model submitted in the early stages of a competition.
I'm sure you'd be happier with the large round red balls in front of your local Target!
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:57:16 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Pan_Yan
Ever been to the Hilton in Reno? There are a number of equestrian statues there ~ I suppose they must be art because they’ve been gilded with cheap gold tint.
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posted on
12/14/2011 9:59:37 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
I'm sure you'd be happier with the large round red balls in front of your local Target! I usually am. Oh, did you mean the store? :-))
To: colorado tanker
The store ~ looks like “pubic art”.
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posted on
12/14/2011 10:11:13 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Askwhy5times
This thing has got "occult" written all over it.
Somewhere some group of globalists is laughing their butts off at it's true hidden meaning.
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posted on
12/14/2011 10:24:05 AM PST
by
SENTINEL
(Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
To: Askwhy5times
OMG!! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!!
There is nothing “artistic” about it . . . . . in fact, it is just plain ugly and childish.
Frankly, I think we owe a debt of gratitude to the DoD for keeping it out of sight of the general public. It is a hideous item and should be attached to the next drone we send over Iran!!
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posted on
12/14/2011 10:32:21 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
To: Askwhy5times
Barney Frank only pays $100 to hear a gurgling sound.
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posted on
12/14/2011 10:40:09 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Askwhy5times
Apparently the Artsy Fartsy Brick-a-brack Industry is alive and well.
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posted on
12/14/2011 10:56:57 AM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
("Fair share" are the last two words I hear before I stop taking someone seriously.)
To: throwback
I thought that’s what michelle was for ...
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posted on
12/14/2011 11:56:57 AM PST
by
stylin19a
(obama - "FREDO" smart)
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